Ethiopian peacekeepers seek asylum in Sudan
THIRTY-FIVE Ethiopian peacekeeping soldiers were flown from Darfur in western Sudan to a refugee camp near the border with their country after they sought asylum in Sudan, a source at the Sudanese refugees' commission and state media said. The troops are among a group of 120 Ethiopian peacekeepers from a joint African Union-United Nations mission that is withdrawing from Sudan's Darfur region, who sought international protection this month before they were due to be repatriated. A U.N. spokesman said most were from the Tigray region, where fighting erupted in November between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front…